This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered
Chapter 259 - 251: Human Greed is Insatiable, Like a Snake Swallowing an Elephant

Chapter 259: Chapter 251: Human Greed is Insatiable, Like a Snake Swallowing an Elephant

As their lips parted, Liang Yi opened his eyes with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, staring at Su Youyi who was too shy to dare look at him again.

"Quite a quick learner, aren’t you?" Liang Yi teased with a laugh, straightening his posture to look at his junior sister who was peeking away. From his angle, all he could see was his junior sister’s increasingly reddened earlobe, pink and trembling slightly.

"Huh~" Mischievously, Liang Yi leaned towards his junior sister’s ear and gently blew a breath.

"Ah!" Caught by surprise, Su Youyi was completely unprepared. An electric shiver ran through her body, giving her goosebumps.

"Hahahaha!" Liang Yi’s wildly triumphant laughter echoed atop the mountain peak, delightfully watching his junior sister’s awkward state.

Su Youyi, looking at her senior brother rolling on the ground with laughter to the point of being breathless, felt her teeth itch with irritation.

Seizing the opportunity, she immobilized Liang Yi with a strong move and then proceeded to deliver a Combination Punch under his dull gaze, eventually making Liang Yi kneel and beg for mercy.

"Stop, stop, stop, I was wrong, I beg for mercy!"

Liang Yi lay sprawled on the ground, begging loudly to Su Youyi who was straddling his waist. At that moment, Liang Yi’s eyes were filled with terror, looking at Su Youyi as if she were a woman cultivator from the Demon Path.

It must be said, straddling him and beating him up did bring out that flair of her past life, the only problem was that her wicked smile was a bit too arrogant.

Hearing her senior brother’s pleas, Su Youyi stopped the half-executed Combination Punch, her face full of regret, not having had the chance to fully unleash her martial arts.

Before Su Youyi could get off, a golden light flew towards Liang Yi from a grand hall in the far distance, targeting him directly.

Liang Yi paused for a second, raising his hand to catch the Communication Talisman and sent his Divine Sense into it. Judging by the direction it came from, it must be a message from Elder Zi.

The content was brief, and Liang Yi had read it all in an instant.

"What did Elder Zi say?" Su Youyi, who was sitting on Liang Yi, asked curiously.

"So the interrogation is concluded? Didn’t expect Elder Zi to be so swift." Liang Yi sighed with admiration at the swiftness. It hadn’t been long since the interrogation started.

"Uhm, can you get off me now? You’re really heavy!" Liang Yi poked Su Youyi’s waist with the index finger of his right hand, causing the ticklish Su Youyi to laugh and duck away.

Su Youyi then realized their current position was somewhat ambiguous. But in the next instant, she was once again angered by her senior brother’s words, biting her lip and puffing her cheeks petulantly at Liang Yi.

"I’m just teasing you, how could junior sister possibly be heavy? See for yourself!" Liang Yi, seeing Su Youyi’s tiger-like rage, swept her into his arms and spun her around, which elicited adorable laughter from Su Youyi.

If He Zhiqing saw this, he’d grab Liang Yi by the collar and roar, "You said you didn’t know how to flirt with girls!?"

"Let’s go, let’s meet Elder Zi first." Liang Yi settled down the playful junior sister, looking towards the central peak amongst the vast purplish sea of clouds in the far distance. That was the main hall of the Purple Cloud Sect, and all other peaks were there to guard it.

"Yes!" Su Youyi thought of the person who plotted against her and Yu Gejing and couldn’t help but reveal a hint of coldness in her eyes.

When Liang Yi and Su Youyi arrived in front of the sect’s main hall, He Zhiqing and Yu Gejing were already waiting there.

"Sorry for the wait," Liang Yi apologized to He Zhiqing.

"No, we’ve just arrived ourselves. Let’s go inside," He Zhiqing waved his hand, turning to call for his senior sister but saw that Yu Gejing had already rushed off to find Su Youyi.

Indeed, as soon as Su Youyi appeared within view, his senior sister seemed to forget about her junior brother.

"Ah, life is not easy," Zhiqing sighed.

"That won’t do, let’s talk as we walk," Liang Yi knew exactly what his brother was troubled about upon seeing He Zhiqing like this – a typical case of an innocent, sheltered man.

It wasn’t wrong to say that the Complete Heaven Sect was full of hermits: rarely mingling in the Cultivation World, hardly flirting with girls, favoring the use of compasses and divination over social interaction.

For them, studying Daoist Skills and Star Charts was far more important than anything else.

In Liang Yi’s opinion, these people deserved to be single and could carry their compasses all the way to their graves.

It was only now that Zhiqing was getting older that he suddenly had a moment of clarity and realized the feelings he always harbored deep in his heart for his senior sister. This shifted some attention from cultivation to her.

But then he discovered that this woman was more complex and enigmatic than the myriad stars in the sky, not to mention his own shyness and unease around her. Even though he had maxed out Yu Gejing’s affections, he remained unaware and still dared not puncture through that last layer of barrier.

"You say you, the Chief of Complete Heaven Sect, who receives thumbs up from everyone in the Cultivation World, why don’t you just divinate it," Liang Yi clapped his hands, giving Zhiqing a suggestion.

In his view, these two needed some external pressure to make a move. Last time he did his utmost to help, but Zhiqing still didn’t take the chance.

He Zhiqing fell into a rare silence for a moment, then let out a sigh, shook his head and slowly explained:

"This kind of divination is too dangerous to attempt, for once it’s fully deciphered there will be no more choices left."

Liang Yi curled his lips dismissively. It all sounded so mystical and profound, but it was just chickening out.

Just like those in his past life who were too afraid to confess their crushes, they could at least delude themselves into thinking the other party might reciprocate their feelings. But once they confessed and got rejected, not even the slightest hint of ambiguity would remain.

Now, any fool could see that Yu Gejing also liked her little junior brother. Too bad the object of her affection had a skull made of elm wood—completely oblivious.

"Aren’t you afraid someone else will snatch away Senior Sister Yu? As soon as Elder Fang revives her against the heavens, her lifespan issue will be resolved, and there will be a flood in the Cultivation World of suitors wanting her as a Daoist partner to the point that it could fill up the Complete Heaven Sect, believe it or not."

Seeing that conventional methods were ineffective, Liang Yi switched to a more provocative approach.

"I can’t stop those who want to pursue Senior Sister Yu, as long as they’re prepared to have their Dao Foundations shattered by me," He Zhiqing said with cool indifference, casually uttering the most ruthless words.

"Tsk tsk, such a show of dominance. Try repeating that to Senior Sister Yu, and I guarantee you won’t be alone when you view the Star Map at night," Liang Yi said with a mocking tone, hands in his pockets as he nodded toward Yu Gejing with his chin.

"Haha, stop joking, everyone has their own interpretation of the Star Map, so you absolutely can’t view it with others at night," He Zhiqing kindly pointed out a basic error in Liang Yi’s knowledge.

"Damn it, am I discussing with you about the Star Map or not?" Liang Yi said, holding his forehead, at a loss with this blockhead.

Complete Heaven Sect, which had such a high status before players arrived, was single-handedly turning into the second Zen Sect of the Cultivation World by someone like He Zhiqing, the textbook example of an introvert.

"Huh?" He Zhiqing did not understand; one is indeed not supposed to view the Star Map together.

Amidst their casual conversation, they had already arrived at the inner hall of the palace. Elder Zi, who was holding a whisk broom, was seriously and carefully dusting every nook and cranny of the hall.

"Elder Zi!" Liang Yi had grown familiar with Elder Zi since he’d been hanging around him for so many days. He’d realized that aside from being serious about the sect’s legacy, the old man was not serious about anything else.

"The Sect Master has arrived, huh." Upon hearing Liang Yi’s voice and seeing that everyone had already arrived, Elder Zi leisurely put away the whisk broom.

"You sure are in good spirits." Liang Yi joked, seeing that Elder Zi, who obviously could use Daoist skills to dust, chose to do it himself instead.

"You’re still young, you don’t understand."

Elder Zi shook his head indifferently, unfazed by Liang Yi’s banter.

"Where’s the person?"

Liang Yi looked around but couldn’t find the person who had possessed the Purple Cloud Sect’s overseer.

"He’s been dealt with. If things go as expected, his external self outside of the Great Formation is already dead, his Divine Soul exterminated beyond saving," Elder Zi said as he paced in front of Liang Yi.

"And his plotting against you all had nothing to do with the Abyss."

Elder Zi shared the memories he extracted directly from the possessed man’s Divine Soul, and everyone finally understood the cause and progression of the matter.

"These people are truly idle." Yu Gejing understood the whole situation and was visibly furious. They, the Super Force, completely understood the major factions’ little schemes when it came to First-grade strength.

To put it bluntly, with the power of their eight major sects, they could wipe out all First-grade forces in the world if they chose to, and then raise a new generation of powers as they saw fit.

When the Super Forces put on a show of force, they could make the entire Cultivation World tremble in fear, but they didn’t. Firstly, cultivation is for the purpose of achieving Dao, and everything else is only to protect the Dao. Secondly, the major threat of the Abyss has not been eradicated, and the current Zen Sect is devoting all its efforts to suppressing the Abyss in the Desert North. Thirdly, not all cultivators will ultimately achieve Dao.

Or to put it another way, there was previously no path to achieving Dao in the Cultivation World.

In the absence of hope for achieving immortality, the giants at the peak of the Cultivation World were even more concerned with other issues, such as the normal functioning of the world. Small ripples and minor fluctuations were tolerable, preventing the Cultivation World from stagnating.

However, there was no need to stir up a tempest that would affect countless factions—the Super Forces promptly and forcefully suppressed any signs of such uprisings.

Especially in recent years, the onset of a great era indicated the coming of great crises.

And for them, the only true crisis was the Abyss, so the upper echelons aimed to enhance the overall strength of the Cultivation World as much as possible.

Even the quota for the Purple Cloud Phoenix Extreme Secret Realm this time was much larger than in previous years. In other respects, the Super Forces intentionally yielded some benefits to strengthen the middle and lower tiers.

But they hadn’t expected that their goodwill would be utterly misunderstood.

Even some sects and noble houses directly affiliated with the Super Forces were itching for a fight, seeing this grand era as an opportunity for reshuffling the hierarchy and attaining the pinnacle of greatness.

"Such is human nature," He Zhiqing murmured softly.

Even if they had maintained stability and peace in the Cultivation World for countless years, allowing everyone to enjoy the benefits of secure development, there were still those whose greed was insatiable.

And this situation would only intensify as the great era unfolded. As for what the future holds, no one could really tell.

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